7 - REVIEW SENTENCE, FRAGMENTS, RUN-ONS: MEDUSA STORY
Put the sentences together in paragraph form. (Do not include numbers.) Combine or separate sentences so that there are no fragments or run-ons.
- Medusa and her two sisters were three horrible monsters who, at one time, had been beautiful women.
- Medusa, the most beautiful of the three, was very proud, she boasted that she was even more beautiful than the goddess Athena.
- Because of her pride, she and her two sisters were turned into monsters.
- Who had hissing serpents for hair.
- No one dared look upon Medusa and her sisters.
- Because anyone who did turned to stone.
- Lying all about them were stones that had once been men.
- Medusa and her two sisters menaced the land for years finally they were challenged by Perseus.
- A young, handsome warrior.
- Having been given magic weapons by the gods.
- Perseus set out to kill Medusa.
- The only mortal one of the three sisters.
- When he approached the area in which the monsters lived.
- Perseus put on a magic cap which made him invisible he held up a shield that had been given him by Athena.
- Studying the reflection of Medusa and her sisters in his shield.
- Perseus slowly approached the monsters.
- Luckily, they were sleeping.
- Still using the shield as a mirror, he cut off Medusa’s head with a single stroke he put the head into a special pouch.
- Which had also been given to him by Athena.
- The other sisters awoke but could not see him, therefore he escaped with the head of Medusa.
